Marriage -- A chance to spend the rest of your life with the one you love; a ceremony celebrated with family and close friends, a time to forget your past and start over, but this time with someone you care about by your side. Like a baptisim for adults, being reborn into a life of Christ; perhaps a New Year's resolution just waiting to be brought to life. However farmers such as Wang Lung witnessed a much tougher situation.
"[Wang Lung's] father...[had] gone to the House of Hwang and asked if there was a slave to spare. 'Not a slave to young, and above all, not a pretty one,' he had said." (p.8) This slave, whom Wang Lung had never met would be his new wife. They would live together for the rest of their lives, and just the thought of having this forced upon you is truely tragic. As Wang prepared for what should be the most important day of his life it turned more into a chore, not something I would picture my own wedding day like at all. Wang's modivation to get out of bed was "this [is] the last morning [I] [will] have to light the fire...And [even] if the woman wearied, there would be children to light the fire." (p.3) Even when he arrives home with his new wife, all he can think about is how she will prepare dinner for the guests he invited over later that night. I can't even imagine putting myself in O-Lan's shoes and have to live day to day knowing this was how my should have been fairytale wedding ended afterall.
I really liked your text evidence and ideas. Maybe next time have less summarizing, but you know I do that too(: GREAT JOB TAME!(:
ReplyDeleteYou have wonderful text evidence and I really like how you defined marriage in the beginning. Again, maybe you could put a little more of your opinion into your response, but other than that, it was great!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your intro, on how marriage in our society is, and then your comparison of it with what Wang Lung experienced, and your use of quotes. If you could compose a stronger conclusion, though, that would really improve your writing.
ReplyDeleteHey Tmae! I think that your write-up was just AAMMAAZZIINNGG!!! HAHAHA!!! If that couldn't pull a reader in I don't know what would. Just WOW! Anyways Besides thinking that it was GRRREAT I thought that you summarized just a tad too much... but only a little. Maybe that is what you can work on next time you write a response. Although I just can't stop thinking about the ending or beginning. I loved how you talked about yor dream wedding and how her's was nothing like what you would dream and I expecailly liked how you talked about putting yourself in her shoes... I just can't say enough about this. It was just FANTABULOUS!
ReplyDeleteKeep up the GRRREAT work Tmae!
This is an excellent response, well crafted, and intellectual. I love the way you start it out with a really well constructed thesis, incorporating some techniques. Thanks for remembering how to bracket a selected piece from a quote which you need to change. Excellent. Listen, this is just plain excellent. Thanks.
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